CVE-2009-0689 Information

Description

Array index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2 NetBSD 5.0 OpenBSD 4.5 Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 K-Meleon 1.5.3 SeaMonkey 1.1.8 and other products allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow during conversion to a floating-point number.

Reference

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/gdtoaimp.h http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0311.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0312.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37431 http://secunia.com/advisories/37682 http://secunia.com/advisories/37683 http://secunia.com/advisories/38066 http://secunia.com/advisories/38977 http://secunia.com/advisories/39001 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-35/ http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/63 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/69 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/71 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/72 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/73 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/75 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/76 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/77 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/78 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/81 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022478 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/942/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1601.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507977/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507979/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508417/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508423/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3299 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0094 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516396 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516862 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00001.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6528 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9541